Our school is currently taking part in the GLOBE Ireland Air Quality Campaign. This is a citizen-science campaign to assess traffic-related air pollution at schools. It is an educational project designed to raise awareness about air pollution ,

The Green Schools team received monitoring tubes to measure nitrogen dioxide outside our school.  Siobhan, Jakub, Fern and Aedan positioned the tubes at at three locations decided on by the committee –  one near a main road (front of the school), one at a car park/drop off location (Jordan’s car park) and one in a relatively sheltered area (back of the school beside the astro). We sent back information about the tube location when we put them up. The tubes are going to be left up for a four-week period. We will then take them down and send the tubes to be analysed. We will let you know the results when we get them back.